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Results of search for Author: Henry Adams - Page 1 of 2
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Friends are born, not made.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)

Results from Classic Quotes:

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about himself.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance as it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams, 1906

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Henry Brooks Adams
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